ok i finished the whole guide, tyvm for the guide, everything went right the first time exept that from preloader i could not click on homebrew its said it was not intalled, anyway, i restarted my wii, open homebrew and wad manager and did step 5d, installing the last wad file.

My question is : in order to be able to copy my games to my external hdd drive and play them from my hdd as well i do need a usb loader? i am looking at the usb loader form this guide, i dl the files and read the readme but i dont realy undertsand how to install it

do i delete my original sd card and excratc the usb loader file on it or i just add the content to my existing sd? (my existing one still have all the files from this guide)

Does firmware version matter?

Hello,
I recently soft modded my buddies system, but I didn't update his firmware. I left it at 3.2. Does firmware affect game compatibility? would updating it to 4.0, or 4.1 enable more games to work? I tested The New Super Mario Bros. game on it, and since it worked I didn't think I needed to update the firmware, but he's telling me some of the older games aren't working. Giving him a black screen. He's using a the latest build of USB Loader GX along with this tutorial. Thanks!

Hello,
I recently soft modded my buddies system, but I didn't update his firmware. I left it at 3.2. Does firmware affect game compatibility? would updating it to 4.0, or 4.1 enable more games to work? I tested The New Super Mario Bros. game on it, and since it worked I didn't think I needed to update the firmware, but he's telling me some of the older games aren't working. Giving him a black screen. He's using a the latest build of USB Loader GX along with this tutorial. Thanks!

No, you did not need to update your friend's Wii from 3.2 to 4.1 unless your friend wants to play a lot of WiiWare/VC games, use SDHC cards, or plays online a lot. Installation of IOSes is more important for games that the system menu. Most games use IOSes 38, 53, and 55-those are the IOSes you would have installed in Step 5D of the tutorial you were following. If your friend is reported all old games, then reinstall those IOSes, if just a few-you might take a look to see if they are troublesome games for which there are threads, posts, and even tutorials. You can also look here as we are building a list of IOSes that games use-this is helpful for those black screen freezes that often signal a missing IOS: http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...use-run-4.html

ok i finished the whole guide, tyvm for the guide, everything went right the first time exept that from preloader i could not click on homebrew its said it was not intalled, anyway, i restarted my wii, open homebrew and wad manager and did step 5d, installing the last wad file.

My question is : in order to be able to copy my games to my external hdd drive and play them from my hdd as well i do need a usb loader? i am looking at the usb loader form this guide, i dl the files and read the readme but i dont realy undertsand how to install it

do i delete my original sd card and excratc the usb loader file on it or i just add the content to my existing sd? (my existing one still have all the files from this guide)

Hi , i used you tut and everything went well untill i tried to update to 4.1 and got "Error" what should i try i am on 3.1e.
tried some games in the 3.1e booting with the neogamma thats in your tut and all worked except sports resort ,it go's through the motions as if it is going to boot then just go's back to main screen do i need to install something else to get sports resort to boot.

also tried to boot it through the disc channel but got error 002

all help is good help.

thanks in advance

Most backup games will load through NeoGamma and not through the disc channel-the few exceptions are those games for which a special cIOS is installed for it-such as cIOS56 available in the Optional section and is used for USB-playing instrument games.

I have installed everything great and working on my 4.0 wii with bootmii as a IOS and no preloader. but on my friends after upgrading to 4.1 as per the guide it worked great till I played tiger woods 10 and restarted (not during a save) it has been bricked (only the savemiifrii left to try) but my point is what safe practices should I take with my working softmoded wii should I be taking (I'm pressing home and returning to the title screen while playing a game before I restart just in case)

Thanks mat173

With bootmii installed only as IOS, preloader becomes your major source of brick protection. If you do not want to install and use proloader, then your protection reverts to the old days in that you need to scrub and patch your game ISOs before burning to disc-WiiScrubber, RegionFrii, BrickBlocker are applications that would be part of your arsenal w/o preloader installed. These apps are not used much as preloader and the backup loader (either NeoGamma or a USB Loader have settings for out-of region games and so protect against that kind of brick).

An alternative is using a USB Loader and playing games from an external USB HDD-installing games using a USB Loader removes the update partition and again, these loaders have settings for playing out-of-region games.

gen3sf thanks for replaying... i have tried what you said and can't seem to get the system menu back... i did try uninstalling preloader but scared that if i turn off the system it wont turn back on... then i believe i would be completely bricked. as for the 4.1 updater i cannot access internet kuz i havent set this wii to my network... should i uninstall preloader and try to power off the system and power it back on in hopes to get to see the system menu again? and if i do see the system menu will HBC still be there or will i have to do the whole soft mod all over again? thank you in advance really stressing over this as it's for my friend...

Ok well just reinstalled the system menu and got that back then i installed IOS60 patched did the 4.1 updater so far so good... went to install preloader and said it moved the system menu... it brings me back to HBC and when i try to go to the system menu it just brings me back to preloader and says something about not being able to auto system menu... after that back to square 1... i am only wanting to install usbloader gx for only one game... i am going to try to install system menu v449 and see if i can get my system menu back and just install usbloader gx... please, any advice would be great thanks again!

You cannot uninstall preloader; preloader is, however, overwritten by the installation of system menu. So, when you updated the system menu, that overwrote a portion of preloader. Everytime you install a system menu version, preloader has to be reinstalled.